Examination of the Cognitive Structures of the Secondary School Eighth-Grade Students Regarding Some Concepts in Electricity Through the Word Association

Authors : Zafer BALBAG, Ersin KARADEMİR

Pages : 50-64

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Publication Date : 2020-06-29

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :This study aims to reveal the cognitive structures of secondary school eighth-grade students regarding the concepts of current, voltage, and resistance which take place within the subject of electricity by using word association test insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(WAT);. Correlational survey method was used in the study. The study included 100 eighth-grade students who receive education in a state school under the Ministry of National Education in the city center of Eskişehir province in the spring semester of the 2016-2017 academic year. In the research, the word association test was used as a data collection tool. The words obtained as a result of the study regarding the concepts were studied in detail, repeated words are taken into consideration and conceptual networks are created in line with the determined breakpoints. Pursuant to the results, it was seen that secondary school eighth-grade students mostly repeat “electricity”, “fear”, and “force” for the concepts of current, voltage, and resistance, respectively. The distinctive feature of the study is using the word association test insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(WAT); for the first time in determining the cognitive structures of secondary school eighth-grade students towards the concepts of current, voltage, and resistance.
Keywords : Word association test, current, voltage, resistance, secondary school student, cognitive structure

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